Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 231 327
Rank change year-on-year -130 +96 -24
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 545 687 689
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.38% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.55% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 262 300 369
10th Percentile £36,750 £47,375 £39,126
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,850 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £74,688 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,347 £62,500 £58,700
% change year-on-year -1.84% +6.47% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 4 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -105 492 £62,500 -10.71% 852
London -19 304 £67,500 -14.29% 574
Work from Home +32 240 £62,500 -3.85% 332
UK excluding London -191 191 £61,347 -1.84% 334
North of England -17 63 £63,076 -13.00% 74
North West +12 40 £82,500 +29.41% 45
South East -145 33 £41,000 -34.40% 109
Midlands -50 29 £51,250 -15.29% 48
East of England -26 28 £65,000 -9.72% 38
South West -76 25 £68,528 +14.21% 25
West Midlands -36 23 £53,750 -10.42% 39
Yorkshire -34 20 £60,850 -23.94% 24
Scotland +4 9 £85,000 +4.62% 27
East Midlands -26 6 £37,500 -46.04% 9
Wales -52 3 £65,000 +8.59% 9
North East - 3 £63,076 - 5
Northern Ireland -80 2 - - 8

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (4.22%) Confluence
2 16 (2.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (1.83%) CMS
3 10 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (9.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 28 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.92%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.55%) Moqups
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (7.16%) Workfront
2 4 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.73%) Shopify
3 2 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Eikon
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.18%) RMDS
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 87 (15.96%) SaaS
2 78 (14.31%) AWS
3 56 (10.28%) Azure
4 53 (9.72%) iPaaS
5 18 (3.30%) GCP
6 16 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (2.57%) GitHub
8 13 (2.39%) Figma
8 13 (2.39%) Google Workspace
8 13 (2.39%) Power Platform
9 10 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (1.83%) OneDrive
10 7 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.10%) Asana
12 5 (0.92%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (0.73%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (0.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 3 (0.55%) Power Automate
14 3 (0.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 62 (11.38%) Broadband
2 31 (5.69%) HTTP
3 11 (2.02%) WAN
4 8 (1.47%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.28%) Firewall
5 7 (1.28%) LAN
6 5 (0.92%) Network Security
6 5 (0.92%) NGN
7 4 (0.73%) MPLS
7 4 (0.73%) SAN
8 3 (0.55%) Intranet
8 3 (0.55%) Multicast
8 3 (0.55%) VSAT
8 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.55%) WLAN
9 2 (0.37%) DNS
9 2 (0.37%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.37%) Skype
9 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.72%) Metadata
2 12 (2.20%) Power BI
3 6 (1.10%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.92%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.55%) Big Data
5 3 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.37%) Mixpanel
6 2 (0.37%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.18%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.18%) MySQL
7 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.18%) Redis
7 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (8.62%) JIRA
2 9 (1.65%) Git
3 6 (1.10%) Claude Code
4 5 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.92%) Selenium
5 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.55%) JUnit
5 3 (0.55%) Postman
6 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) TestNG
6 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 182 (33.39%) Marketing
2 179 (32.84%) Social Skills
3 168 (30.83%) Finance
4 88 (16.15%) Banking
5 80 (14.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 76 (13.94%) Law
7 69 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
8 65 (11.93%) Retail
9 62 (11.38%) Presentation Skills
10 50 (9.17%) Influencing Skills
11 33 (6.06%) Public Sector
12 27 (4.95%) Legal
13 22 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (3.85%) Back Office
15 17 (3.12%) Telecoms
16 16 (2.94%) Italian Language
17 15 (2.75%) Manufacturing
18 14 (2.57%) Retail Banking
19 11 (2.02%) German Language
20 9 (1.65%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 169 (31.01%) Product Manager
2 76 (13.94%) Product Owner
3 73 (13.39%) Senior
4 72 (13.21%) Lead
5 43 (7.89%) Software Engineer
6 40 (7.34%) Senior Manager
7 37 (6.79%) Senior Product Manager
8 31 (5.69%) Development Engineer
8 31 (5.69%) Software Development Engineer
9 28 (5.14%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (3.67%) Consultant
11 18 (3.30%) Developer
12 17 (3.12%) Platform Manager
12 17 (3.12%) Product Lead
13 15 (2.75%) Business Consultant
14 14 (2.57%) Business Development Consultant
14 14 (2.57%) Development Consultant
14 14 (2.57%) Technical Manager
15 13 (2.39%) Technical Engineer
15 13 (2.39%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.61%) REST
2 9 (1.65%) Google Maps API
2 9 (1.65%) React
3 7 (1.28%) LangChain
4 6 (1.10%) CSS
4 6 (1.10%) HTML
4 6 (1.10%) Spring
5 5 (0.92%) PyTorch
5 5 (0.92%) Spring Boot
5 5 (0.92%) TensorFlow
6 4 (0.73%) LangGraph
6 4 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.55%) .NET
7 3 (0.55%) CrewAI
7 3 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (0.55%) LlamaIndex
7 3 (0.55%) Node.js
7 3 (0.55%) Pandas
8 2 (0.37%) FHIR
8 2 (0.37%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 181 (33.21%) Product Ownership
2 63 (11.56%) Social Media
3 54 (9.91%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (9.91%) Over-the-Top Content
4 40 (7.34%) Cloud Native
5 36 (6.61%) Public Cloud
6 31 (5.69%) Onboarding
7 23 (4.22%) AI Agents
8 17 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.12%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.39%) Web Conferencing
10 12 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
11 11 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (2.02%) Educational Technology
11 11 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.65%) Augmented Reality
12 9 (1.65%) Virtual Reality
13 8 (1.47%) Driving Licence
13 8 (1.47%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.28%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.75%) Linux
2 9 (1.65%) Windows
3 4 (0.73%) Unix
4 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) CentOS
5 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (61.28%) Roadmaps
2 237 (43.49%) Agile
3 163 (29.91%) Product Roadmap
4 134 (24.59%) Product Vision
5 132 (24.22%) AI
6 124 (22.75%) Decision-Making
7 119 (21.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 108 (19.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 105 (19.27%) User Stories
10 102 (18.72%) Product Backlog
11 101 (18.53%) Customer Experience
12 88 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
13 87 (15.96%) Product Requirements
14 85 (15.60%) Software Engineering
15 84 (15.41%) Product Strategy
16 79 (14.50%) Analytics
17 77 (14.13%) User Experience
18 75 (13.76%) Sprint Planning
19 72 (13.21%) Matrix Organization
20 71 (13.03%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 45 (8.26%) Java
2 30 (5.50%) Python
3 12 (2.20%) JavaScript
3 12 (2.20%) SQL
4 9 (1.65%) TypeScript
5 7 (1.28%) C++
6 6 (1.10%) Bicep
7 5 (0.92%) R
8 3 (0.55%) Bash
8 3 (0.55%) C#
8 3 (0.55%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.55%) PHP
8 3 (0.55%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.37%) Perl
10 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 105 (19.27%) Degree
2 20 (3.67%) Master's Degree
3 17 (3.12%) Security Cleared
4 16 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.20%) MBA
6 10 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.65%) HND
8 8 (1.47%) HNC
9 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.10%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.10%) PMP
10 5 (0.92%) CSPO
11 4 (0.73%) CCNA
11 4 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.73%) PhD
12 3 (0.55%) CISSP
12 3 (0.55%) Dell Certification
12 3 (0.55%) MCSA
13 2 (0.37%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.87%) QA
2 23 (4.22%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.65%) GDPR
4 6 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.10%) PMO
5 4 (0.73%) PERC
5 4 (0.73%) SLA
6 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.37%) DICOM
6 2 (0.37%) HL7
6 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.18%) GRC
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.83%) Docker
2 4 (0.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.73%) Firmware
3 3 (0.55%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.37%) vSphere
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (3.12%) Terraform
2 9 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.55%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.55%) WSUS
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 57 (10.46%) Adobe
2 52 (9.54%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.67%) Google
3 20 (3.67%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.02%) Cisco
4 11 (2.02%) Facebook
4 11 (2.02%) OpenAI
5 10 (1.83%) Oracle
6 8 (1.47%) Workday
7 6 (1.10%) Juniper
8 5 (0.92%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.73%) Toshiba
10 3 (0.55%) Aderant
10 3 (0.55%) Fujitsu
10 3 (0.55%) iManage
10 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.55%) Reuters
10 3 (0.55%) Starlink
10 3 (0.55%) VMware